Knowledge of Hell
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Portuguese Literature
ISBN-10
1564784363
ISBN-13
9781564784360
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 17th, 2008
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
394 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 14.10 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Thriller / suspenseAdventureFiction in translation
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Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. The reader joins that narrator on a journey, both real and phantasmagorical, from his Algarve vacation back to Lisbon and the mental-hospital job he hates. In the course of one long day and evening, he carries on an imaginary conversation with his daughter Joanna, observes with surreal vision the bleak countryside of his nation, recalls the horrors of his involuntary role in the suppression of Angolan independence, and curses the charlatanism of contemporary psychiatric “advances” that destroy rather than heal.
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